VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.

VOSviewer is a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks.

These networks may for instance include journals, researchers, or individual publications, and they can be constructed based on co-citation, bibliographic coupling, or co-authorship relations.

VOSviewer also offers text mining functionality that can be used to construct and visualize co-occurrence networks of important terms extracted from a body of scientific literature.

VOSviewer version 1.6.5 was released on September 28, 2016. Some of the improvements introduced in this version are listed below:

Overlay visualizations. These popular visualizations have been made more prominently visible.

Maps based on bibliographic data. Functionality for creating maps based on bibliographic data has been improved. Items can be filtered based on citation counts, and various types of overlay visualizations are supported.

Command line parameters. Many new command line parameters have been added to support the fully automatic production of maps.

Improved user interface. By reorganizing some user interface elements, more space has been made available for showing the visualizations.

These products provide research institutions and research funders with a comprehensive view on their scientific activities, and they can serve as excellent tools to support strategic decision making.

Some examples of VOSviewer-based analyses offered by CWTS are listed below:

University profile maps ⏎

These maps visualize the research profile of a university by showing how the output and impact of a university are distributed over scientific fields. In this way, universities' strengths and weaknesses can be identified and comparisons between universities can be made.

Disciplinary profile maps ⏎

A disciplinary profile map offers a breakdown of the scientific literature in a selected field into smaller research areas. Disciplinary profile maps have proven highly effective for visualizing the activity and impact of research groups and research institutes in specific areas of interest.

Citation density maps ⏎

Citation density maps use text mining techniques to provide an intuitive, easy-to-understand overview of a selected set of scientific publications, such as the set of all publications in a particular journal or field during a given time period. Colors are used to indicate the citation impact of different areas of research. This for instance makes it possible to easily identify hot research topics in the scientific literature.

Collaboration maps ⏎

These maps display collaborative relationships between universities, research groups, or individual scientists. Collaboration maps may for instance be used to reveal the main actors in a scientific collaboration network, and to see how different actors group together in different areas within a network.

Research posters are a common way to show the results of your research to the academic community. Researchers present posters at conferences to communicate their work in a summarized form to a broader audience.

The research poster must be clear, concise and attractive in order to generate discussion and feedback from colleagues. However, it is not easy to achieve those goals in a pleasing layout.

Here are some tips to help you design effective research posters that stand out.

Here the authors present a dataset with a description of portrayed emotions in the movie ”Forrest Gump”.

A total of 12 observers independently annotated emotional episodes regarding their temporal location and duration.

The nature of an emotion was characterized with basic attributes, such as arousal and valence, as well as explicit emotion category labels.

In addition, annotations include a record of the perceptual evidence for the presence of an emotion.

Two variants of the movie were annotated separately: 1) an audio-movie version of Forrest Gump that has been used as a stimulus for the acquisition of a large public functional brain imaging dataset, and 2) the original audio-visual movie.

The authors present reliability and consistency estimates that suggest that both stimuli can be used to study visual and auditory emotion cue processing in real-life like situations.

In addition, aggregate time series of inter-observer agreement with respect to particular attributes of portrayed emotions are provided to facilitate adoption of these data.

A poorly sourced one. Too many infographics and data visualizations are put together after hardly a perfunctory Google search or a quick trip to Wikipedia.

As a result, much too often these days we see infographics that end with something like this (we’ve toned down the colors on purpose, so the original piece isn’t easily identifiable – no need to point fingers)...

Infographics have become a widely popular form of content, and that puts a weight on the shoulders of the design community: to make sure the information they visualize is not only accurate, but the most appropriate information/ data for the topic in question.

1. Track down the original source and confirm the data...

2. Make sure you’re using the most recent data available...

3. Do not, ever, source information from user-generated content websites...4. 99% of the Web is just your starting point...5. Limit the number of sources you’re using...

Combining and choosing fonts is an art. Fonts do not come easy, but once you pull off the right typeface, it can make your graphics stand out and, who knows, that type may even come out as the most powerful element in your design!

This infographic illustrates the, “10 Commandments of Typography” that could be followed as quite the basics when it comes to selecting fonts...

Infographics have already established themselves as engaging news and marketing tools, but they are also entering the education space in new and exciting ways.

Teachers can find infographics useful classroom tools in a number of ways. Most prominently, a good graphic makes information easily accessible, as it feeds into many students’ natural tendency to learn by seeing and interacting.

Infographics can also offer a rare chance for crossover between math and language arts, something that many teachers find difficult to do.

So, for teachers, or parents with curious children, who want to use infographics as classroom tools, here are five steps to take while writing your curriculum.

1. Choose the right infographic

Three questions a teacher should ask about about a graphic before using it in the classroom should be:

Does the graphic use verifiable information? Make sure you know the graphic’s sources, and whether they can be trusted.

Does the visualization use best practices? Are you showing students the best example of how information can be presented graphically? Is the graphic distorting the information, and if so, for what end?

Is the graphic engaging? Use an intriguing infographic to keep your students involved and emphasize why it’s important to produce engaging content.

2. Create some context

Put the students in small groups of two to four.

Use a worksheet to prompt students to evaluate the infographic for conclusions they may be able to draw from it.

3. Have students analyze the graphics on their own

Put the students in small groups of two to four. Use a worksheet to prompt students to evaluate the infographic for conclusions they may be able to draw from it.

4. Debrief as a class

Have each one of the groups share what narratives and conclusions they drew from the graphic. Ask them to support their conclusions with evidence they found in the graphic and the background information. Then start a classroom discussion on the differences and similarities between each group’s findings.

5. Evaluate

While it’s great to have a class discussion and get students thinking, every lesson needs an evaluation in today’s school system.

Have each of the students write a short essay in which they develop an argument and support conclusions drawn from their experience with the graphic.

you can embed the interactive visualizations in social media websites (e.g.: Facebook.com, Digg.com, etc.)

we offers a public online gallery of interactive visualizations that have been derived from authentic sources such as books, government documents, technical reports, selected primary journal literature and websites. Featured and Latest updates sections are created and maintained by our statistics collector team.

Infographics can contain a wealth of useful, interesting, and captivating information, but only if readers take the time to survey the entire graphic.

It’s no secret that the typical Internet user quickly bounces from site to site while shuffling among multiple tabs and windows.

With the added distraction from smartphones, TV, and print media, time spent on the Internet is valuable – especially for marketers and advertisers, who covet each and every second a user’s eyeballs are glued to the screen.

In order to better understand how Internet users view and understand infographics, Visual.ly teamed up with Dr. Ruth Rosenholtz, the Principal Research Scientist at the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. Rosenholtz, who holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, leads a research team that studies human vision, including visual search, peripheral vision, perceptual organization, and the impact of visual clutter on task performance.

Rosenholtz and her team developed a process that reveals how the human brain uses peripheral vision to view images.

Rosenholtz created a computer program that takes an image and returns an alternate version called a “mongrel.”

The mongrel shows how the brain interprets an image when centered on a particular point of fixation.

Sharing your scoops to your social media accounts is a must to distribute your curated content. Not only will it drive traffic and leads through your content, but it will help show your expertise with your followers.

Integrating your curated content to your website or blog will allow you to increase your website visitors’ engagement, boost SEO and acquire new visitors. By redirecting your social media traffic to your website, Scoop.it will also help you generate more qualified traffic and leads from your curation work.

Distributing your curated content through a newsletter is a great way to nurture and engage your email subscribers will developing your traffic and visibility.
Creating engaging newsletters with your curated content is really easy.